Quotes about Quit

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

They're playing well together. It's a team effort, and every game has been a team effort. The team we had last year was similar, when they get behind, they don't quit.

Bruce Wright

This game was so much better for us. Last time it was kind of embarrassing, but the girls played well tonight, and they never quit.

Nicole Vetter

Our guys weren't going to quit. It just wasn't enough to get it done.

Stu Walters

I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

Barry Sanders

Our defense in that (fifth) inning looked like we had quit. When they came back (to the dugout) I told them the game wasn't over. They went out and got some hits and scored some runs.

Jon Raker

They played hard. They always play hard. They don't quit and they're a pleasure to coach.

Chris Fenton

If I had a brain in my head I'd quit right now. I'm not going to be as good a coach next year.

Bob Vaughan

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Hugh Sidey

We'll come out hard and let the chips fall where they may. There is no quit in our guys.

Dave Pugliese

I don't know who he was but he was my knight in shining armour. I was ready to quit and walk back to the finish. I told him that I loved him.

Jill Kislia

We are hoping that this campaign will give smokers an excellent reason to quit smoking - to protect their families, friends and colleagues.

Caroline Flint

I think it's real important against an aggressive team like FAMU to come out and get as many runs as you can. FAMU doesn't have any quit in them. They came back and if we didn't have a five-run lead, it might have been a different outcome.

Joanne Graf

I think we found out an awful lot last week. We've got a group of kids who don't have any quit in them. They played hard.

Martin Tobias

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Jackie Robinson

We've got to quit shooting ourselves in the foot. Defense did an excellent job allowing only 76 yards of offense, and that's our bright spot of the night.

Dan Boyce

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

Ralph Stanley

You only got two choices. You either quit and get beat by 100, or you try to show some pride and fight your way back in the game.

Scott Davis

A lot of guys could have quit because of this and that going on around us, but no one on this team did. As players, we focused on what we can control, which is playing games. No one stopped giving it their all at any point this week.

Aaron Shea

In years past, we'd get a big lead, shut down and let the other team catch up. We didn't quit, and that's the kind of effort we'll need all year.

Shawn Gilmer

The kids kept battling and didn't quit. I'm real proud of them. They found a way to do it.

Duane Gasperini

I'm very proud of what we've accomplished. We never quit. We stayed with it until the very end. I'm really proud of these gentlemen. They played their hearts out and never gave up.

Bob Berezowitz

Smoking in and of itself does not control weight, but there's no question that when people quit smoking, they often gain a few pounds, ... And for some industries, that can be a horrible thought.

Cheryl Healton

I'm so proud of my kids. They didn't quit.

Moses Knight

I'm proud of the way our kids fought through a lot of turmoil this season. They (tragically) lost two classmates this past year and we also had a lot of injuries that led to lineup changes. But our kids didn't quit.

Pete Sauer

They don't quit. They play until the end. We got to be happy with two points. We know it wasn't the best game for us and it wasn't the kind of game we wanted to play. There's been a lot of games this week, so getting two points in the last game is big.

Saku Koivu

It was consistent. They just never quit.

Walter Lorenz

Give our girls credit, they didn't quit, but they haven't quit in any game all season. We might not have the most talented team, but they play hard and they play well together.

Dennis George

If they would quit burning until it rains, it would help a lot.

Bill Dunn

That first drive of the half broke our backs. But we didn't quit and came back.

Steve Warner

It's definitely possible. We'll do what we always do. Work hard in practice and stay together. We're not going to quit. We're going to keep working.

Josh Duncan

If the key don't fit, the protein won't quit!

Ridgway Scott

I'm inspired to be in charge of a great club. It's getting huge. I'm overwhelmed. I've almost had to quit my other job.

Jerrus Roxas

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

David Zucker

I thought we were ready to quit there when we got down, but Nicole really got us fired up and was a good leader out there. We had five sophomores out there playing most of the night and I think they were really nervous at the beginning.

Larry Peterson

We had our chances, but we were hot and cold. We didn't quit and we had to fight. But if someone had told me we'd hold the No. 2 in the state under 40 points, I would have thought we'd have won.

Charlie Reppel

I give all the credit to the boys. None of them ever, no matter how bad it was that year (2004), quit. They all kept the faith and now they are reaping the rewards.

Tom Locascio

Yeah, he was mad. He said we needed to rebound more and get in their face and quit making stupid fouls.

Devron Bostick

Falling behind by 20 points really hurts. When you try to come all the way back, you're going to be exhausted at the end. But the good news is, we had guys come off the bench and help us and we didn't quit. We could've folded and lost by 30 or 40 points, but we kept battling, we kept fighting.

Andy Gast

It was our typical game. We played hard for a while, but we quit doing the things we needed to do and pretty soon the game was over.

Randy Appling

Brandon is the picture of hard work and perseverance. Most kids would have quit in his first two years, with the beatings he took in the room. But he didn't.

Russ Mckenzie

The day they tell me I can't hug them (my students), I'll quit. As an elementary teacher, my kids know that when they need a hug, there's one there for them. . . . (But) were I a teacher in a junior high or high school, I would not be hugging the kids.

Pat Rusk

Tonight with a couple breaks, it would have been a lot different for ourselves. The nature of this team is that they don't quit. They didn't quit tonight, even when things were against us.

Ken Cormier

One thing about this team is they don't quit. No matter what, they just worry about what they can control and are just being resilient.

Kaylyn Bayly

We won't quit on defense. We don't care if it's on the one-inch line. We will stop them.

Terrence Royal

Now you really watch to see what guys are made of. Here's the toughest part about it: All those guys bust their butts. They try their butts off. I'm not bailing on these guys. If I see them quit, we'll have a different kind of talk.

Kirk Gibson

(I quit) mainly because it was so socially unacceptable. Religion had a lot to do with it. When you go to other cities, it seems like there are a lot more people smoking out in the open, and it's not so looked down upon.

Beth Allen

That's a great comeback the kids made. They weren't about to give it up. This group of kids ... they're not going to quit until the buzzer sounds.

Tim Branham

In the first half we played well and we played strong in the fourth quarter. That was our goal. In a couple of our past games they wore us down, especially our last game. This time we didn't want to quit.

Al Smeenk

He's got a fan base that won't quit. He's been getting consistently poor marks from the judges, but is still staying around.

Drew Lachey

There's no quit in that team. I didn't expect it to get to 53-52, but I expected them to come back.

Paul Booth

As caregivers we love our jobs and the service we provide for the community. But how can our employer expect us to provide patient care when we are not paid on time? We don't want to strike but we have to if we can't pay our bills. Many of us might have to quit and find other jobs.

Lisette Perez

We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit.

Andrew Hopman

And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.

Dennis Miller

If I were to play another, 160 would be a good score. It's just time to quit.

Charles Coody

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

Dean Stockwell

We quit scoring and they got after us pretty good.

Robin Selvig

Those kids did not fold, they did not quit. They believed in themselves and believed in each other. They came out of that locker room and played team ball like it was the first quarter all over again.

Keisha Brown

The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was going on in each individual's mind. And we've never really spoken about it. But I do know that Butch felt that he quit.

Shirley Manson

It is real easy to quit after that. You're a senior and you lose your first match and it is a long way back but he did a great job.

Don Shuler

He wouldn't quit. Hell, he loves the mines.

Donald Marsh

The reason for the kids not being on the team was a valid reason. They didn't quit. They had a choice, and the choice they made put them off the team.

Herman Calad

Are your office policies in sync with employee needs and desires? Knowing what keeps your employees happy will not only increase productivity and morale, but will also make employees less likely to quit.

Neil Lebovits

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Barry Mann

I knew it wouldn't be easy. Coach (Aaron) Watson has his kids playing hard; they have no quit in them. This is a difficult place to play, but I was pleased.

Todd Hanson

We quit playing, and we played our final gig like five times.

Jay Saul

We had moments where I thought they played really well. It's just that once we got that goal, they just quit playing.

Sly Yeates

The girls never quit. We knew if we could get it down to 10 going into the final period that we would have a chance.

Kris Flood

That game, believe it or not, it really raised the whole school's morale, seeing those girls not quit.

Robert Vinegar

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Christine Berg

This was huge. We didn't quit. We didn't sulk. We played great in the second half of the first period, and the second period was great. In the third, the work of the first two periods finally paid off.

Tom Poti

We made a pact, me and each one of these players, that we wouldn't quit. They're trying. ... They're just a blue-collar team that works hard and just can't get a break.

Daniel Berthiaume

Anything can happen. Once we got those goals, we didn't quit.

Alex Marlis

As long as (people) don't quit on us, we aren't going to quit on ourselves. It's not over.

Jimmy Mckinney

We've found most of our (new) members are people who just quit going to church. A new church gives them a chance to start fresh.

Tim Halstead

I'm not ready to quit yet. I'm not ready to go home.

Charise Bain

The kids worked hard and never quit, but we couldn't get the shots to fall ? particularly our free throws. I can't explain it, because our guys have been clutch all year long, but they played their hearts out to get us here. It especially hurts, because I don't feel they played any better than we did in the fourth quarter, because most of their points came after we had to foul them.

Jimmy Wallace

I've heard their kids are still playing hard. When you're struggling it's easy in late January for kids to kind of quit.

Greg Kirby

You have to give those guys credit. There was absolutely no quit in them. They just kept coming and coming and coming.

Mark Steenhuis

We were a little (ticked) off. We let it slip, and that is one thing you can't do when you're up against a team like this and you have them down 2-0. You have to bury them, but they didn't quit. We have to take that, learn from it, and move on.

Ryan Getzlaf

We need to stop disrespecting each other! We're better than this! We've got to quit feeling sorry for ourselves!

Damion Easley

It?s like keep smoking or quit smoking. Put on my seat belt, not put on my seat belt. When AIDS came around, do you change your behavior. You have to make a decision.

Gregg Patterson

We were down six in last two minutes. We don't give up. We don't quit.

Mehmet Okur

We must not allow the slightest breath of suspicion to arise that we want to quit NATO, ... the business of NATO alone.

Rudolf Scharping

Even losing games, kids need to learn things. How little things can make a difference in life, like in basketball games. How to react from losing and don't quit. How they handled those situations says good things about their lives.

Jim Pettis

We didn't quit and our effort was there to the end. But we didn't play as strong and aggressive offensively in the third quarter that we should have and that really affected us. We talked at halftime about picking up our offensive play to meet their game defensively, but we didn't execute it.

Grant Smith

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard Petty

We made some mistakes, but it's typical Upper Perk. They don't quit. It's not the first time we've been in a barn burner with them.

Bruce Brobst

You're happy with the tie because you were down by two with eight minutes to go, but you're not happy that you score five goals and only get a tie. Give our girls credit. We never quit.

Ryan Ghere

You've quit three times. How I can let you back?

Jocelyn Duke

Well, she hit it so high that I didn't know if it was going to go over the fence. Then, when it finally hit I didn't know which side of the fence it was on. But they quit chasing it, so that gave me a pretty good idea.

Bill Fetters

I was once in their shoes, too. I remember when I was a freshman, I asked so many questions, I thought everybody was going to be like, 'Man, P., will you just quit asking me questions?' But they didn't say that. Those guys helped me out, so that's what I'm doing now to the younger guys here.

Patrick Willis

Offensively he's very good and defensively he's continuing to improve on a daily basis. Chad is a person who has no quit in him.

Terry Rupp

I can't quit looking at it. I lost my house, my truck, everything. But I almost cried when I saw that.

Brandon Watson

I think our kids learned something from this experience. Anytime you come on this level, and in this place, and lose by 14 and outscore them 41-32 after halftime, it shows we're not a team that's ever going to quit.

Greg Jackson

Our kids played them tough. We didn't quit. ... Obviously, it hurts because you never want it to end when you've got something going good, but it was a fun ride.

Mike Bendele

These kids never quit and everybody played great. Derek has been a big player for us all year and he deserves to score that goal.

Don Lowe

The thing that I'm proud of is, they didn't quit. They played hard the whole game.

Richard Thurin

If anything this case did do, it showed me the importance of how not to quit. There's always something to follow.

Sgt. Brooks Long

Give my guys credit, they didn't quit. They didn't die. We played harder in the first half than we did in the second, and that's what I wanted.

Mike Gold